Historical records matching Franklin MacVeagh, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

"...will come before the commissioners for their consideration, this including roads and other matters. Former Secretary Under Taft Dies CHICAGO. July 7-(#)-FranklinMacVeagh, 96. secretary of the treasury ... and the remainder of her estate for the purchase of suitable land as a burial ground for animals. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Rodriguez announce the birth July 5, of a baby girl at a local hospital. The grim ... into a bucket of water and matches were held to her feet. An appeal for state troops to halt the feud, in which four have died, was made to Gov. Fntrail. 160 APPLY FOR LIVE STOCK LOANS Applications for live stock ... Disease Kills CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 7-(INS) The death of Anna Mary Hardy, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hardy of Cheyenne was said by..."

"...MacVeagh was President Taft's secretary of the treasury-, are having their memories jostled by the death of the Chi-cagoan.
One of the anecdotes going the rounds is of the time Mrs. MacVeagh was presented ... institutions named by the governor as being- in a deplorable state were:
The Central hospital for the insane in Indianapolia
The Indiana women's prison here.
The Evansville state hospital.
"These institutions ... are in a deplorable state due to over-crowding and to unsanitary conditions caused by the over-crowding," the governor said. He pointed out that one building at the Central hospital here was the oldest state ... -owned building.
WILI. TAKE LARGE FUNDS
State Safety Director Al Feeney several months ago condemned one old dormtiory at the Central hospital as a..."

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Rye and barley also have suffered badly and yields per acre of both were expected to be the lowest on record.
Washington oldsters, who were here when FranklinMacVeagh was President Taft's secretary ... by the grovémor as being: in a deplorable state were:
The Central t^ospital for the insane In Indianapolis.
The Indiana women's prison here.
The Evansville state hospital.
These institutions are in a deplorable ... state due to over-crowding: and to unsanitary conditions caused by the over-crowding:, the governor said, fie pointed out that one building at the Central hospital here was the oldest state-owned building ... .
WILL TAKES LARGE FUNDS
State Safety Director Al Feeney several months ago condemned one old dormtiory at the Central hospital as a fire trap.
It will take a lot of money to put these institutions..."

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About Franklin MacVeagh, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Franklin MacVeagh (November 22, 1837 – July 6, 1934) was an American banker and Treasury Secretary.

Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Yale University in 1858, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1864. He worked as a wholesale grocer and lawyer. He had been director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for 29 years when President William Howard Taft asked him to be Secretary of the Treasury in 1909. He did not tackle the pressing problem of currency reform, leaving it to the National Monetary Commission, which had been established by the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908. He did, however, stress the urgency of reform in his annual report. He is remembered for increasing the efficiency and general progressiveness of the Treasury Department: He abolished 450 unnecessary positions, rehabilitated the U.S. Customs Service with the introduction of electric automatic weighing devices and accepted certified checks instead of currency for customs and internal revenue payments. He was also involved in the creation of the buffalo nickel.

He was brother to Wayne MacVeagh, an Attorney General of the United States.

His Washington D.C., home at 2600 16th St., NW, was designed and built in 1906, by noted architect George Oakley Totten, Jr., and was known as the "Pink Palace." It is now home to the Inter-American Defense Board.

MacVeagh died in 1934 and is interred at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.